the EIDL loan program was not open to agriculture or farming originally, and then we passed legislation to open it up to the ag community.

At the beginning of the year, the Nation's economy and the country's small businesses were reaching new heights.

I have heard from many small businesses and numerous Members of Congress about the lack of communication coming from the SBA, with regard to the EIDL Program specifically.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

There was still, I think, a considerable need, demand, for non-ag small businesses who needed these EIDL loans.

Despite what you may hear and read from the majority, there is actually a lot of common ground between the legislation that we are considering today here and the legislation that I am an original cosponsor of recently introduced by Senator…

The key here is, we have to outsource all these things, so streamlining it for these small businesses would be great...

I must, once again, register my concern on behalf of our side of the aisle about the continuing conducting of Committee meetings by virtual format.

We need to find a better way to interact as a society, to work with each other, and have the police and the communities that they work with actually work together and talk.

It took tremendous courage for both of you to come here today.

Given the success we've had in Cincinnati, perhaps the Collaborative Agreement could be the starting point for other cities across the country who need to repair police-community relations.

The prospect of defunding or dismantling our police forces is one of the most unwise, irresponsible proposals made by American politicians.

Defunding of police departments has already happened in a number of American cities and, rather than remedying problems, has actually made conditions much worse.

Congress ought to be together. We represent the American people in dealing with these various challenges that our Nation has before us and we ought to be here.

Increased funding for police and increased police presence is actually necessary to enforce the law and to guarantee the safety and the security of law-abiding members of those communities.

We owe it to our children and our grandchildren, to the future of this Nation, to dedicate ourselves to the principle that all men and all women are created equal.

We must enact reforms that ensure accountability for police misconduct, not defund, or dismantle police departments.

I want to commend and thank the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy) and the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Phillips) for working together in a bipartisan manner on this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr…

Unlike the previous bill, I am happy to say that I agree with the chairwoman, and I rise in strong support of H.R. 7010, the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020, as amended. I would, again, like to thank Chairwoman…

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Ohio has 3 minutes remaining.

This has not been an easy time for America's small businesses. As the ranking member of the House Small Business Committee, I hear daily from owners of restaurants and hair salons and small retailers and manufacturers and grocers and…

I urge my colleagues to vote to inject more dollars into this program as quickly as possible.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this is a critical time in our Nation's history. People are worried about their health and that of their loved ones. They are wondering how long this new way of life will last. But people…

The Northern Mariana Islands 55,000 inhabitants deserve the same access to SBA programs as any other American citizens.

I would like to thank Ms. Finkenauer and Mr. Spano for their leadership on this legislation.